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- noting, pertaining to, or characteristic of an artesian well.
1830, from French puits artésien “wells of Artois,” French province where such wells were first bored 18c. by French engineer Bernard Forest de Bélidor (1698-1761). The place name is from Old French Arteis, from Atrebates, a tribe that lived in northwestern Gallia. Cf. Arras.